Statutory Instruments
PENSIONS
Made
22nd April 1965
Laid before Parliament
28th April 1965
Coming into Operation
29th April 1965
The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by paragraph 7 of Schedule 2 to the Superannuation (Amendment) Act 1965 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:-
1.-(1) Where a person serving as a civil servant after the coming into operation of these Regulations was, immediately before he became a civil servant, subject to the Federated Superannuation System for Universities while employed in the civil service of the State, then, subject to the provisions of this Regulation, the continuous period of his F.S.S.U. service immediately preceding the time when he became a civil servant shall, for the purpose only of the provisions of the Superannuation Acts with respect to the minimum periods of service which qualify for the benefit of those Acts, be treated as service in the capacity of a civil servant.
(2) Section 32 of the Superannuation Act 1949 shall have effect in relation to a person to whom the preceding paragraph applies as if for the references in subsections (1) and (2) of that section to twenty years there were substituted references to a period equivalent to the amount by which twenty years exceeds the continuous period of his F.S.S.U. service immediately preceding the time when he became a civil servant:
(3) Where a person to whom paragraph (1) of this Regulation applies dies before the expiration of five years after he has become a civil servant, and by virtue of that paragraph he is treated as having served the minimum period of five years which qualify his personal representatives for the grant of a gratuity under section 2(1) of the Superannuation Act 1909, such gratuity shall be reduced by the total amount of any sums payable in respect of his death under the Federated Superannuation System for Universities, or, if that amount is equal to or greater than the amount of the gratuity, a gratuity shall not be granted to his personal representatives under the said section 2(1).
2. Where a person employed after the coming into operation of these Regulations in the civil service of the State in an unestablished capacity is not subject to the Federated Superannuation System for Universities, and he has previously, while employed in the civil service of the State, been subject to the Federated Superannuation System for Universities, any period of his F.S.S.U. service shall, if that period would, but for the payment of contributions in his case under the Federated Superannuation System for Universities, have been reckonable for the purposes of the Superannuation Acts as service in an unestablished capacity, be treated, for the purpose only of the provisions of those Acts with respect to the minimum periods of service which qualify for the benefit of those Acts, as service in an unestablished capacity.
3.-(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:-
"civil servant"
"F.S.S.U. service", in relation to any person, means
"the Superannuation Acts" means
"unestablished capacity"
(2) TheInterpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
4. These Regulations may be cited as the Superannuation (Service under the Federated Superannuation System for Universities) Regulations 1965, and shall come into operation on 29th April 1965.
James Callaghan
G. H. R. Rogers
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
22nd April 1965
These Regulations provide that service in the Civil Service during which an officer was subject to the Federated Superannuation System for Universities may be taken into account in determining whether such an officer has served the minimum period in order to qualify for benefit under the Superannuation Acts. The service does not reckon for the purpose of determining the amount of benefit.